Nicholas and his wife Cathy founded The Epiphany School seven years ago to provide a strong education for youth preparing for college. After growing quickly, they began construction on a new school last year and recently unveiled The Epiphany School of Global Studies to the community of New Bern, North Carolina! At a recent open house in the school's beautiful new Performing Arts Center, Nicholas tells the 200 attendees... "We hoped the school would be loved by New Bern and embraced with quality education a little different from what you can get in other places." Read the full story at New Bern Sun Journal's website.

Join Nicholas for a book signing from 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. at the Patrick Beaver Memorial Library this Thursday, Sept. 6. The Hickory Public Library and Lenoir-Rhyne University Visiting Writers Series are hosting Nick's visit to Hickory, North Carolina, which also includes a public program at 7:00 p.m. at the P.E. Monroe Auditorium at Lenoir-Rhyne University. Both events are free, open to the public, and no tickets are required! For more info on the signing, visit HickoryNC.gov and for the Evening with Nicholas Sparks event info, visit VistingWriters.LR.edu.

Fans around the world can join Nicholas in a Twitter chat for The Lucky One next Tuesday... The people that brought The Lucky One to the big screen are teaming up with Target to host a live Twitter chat with Nicholas. Tweet your questions @sparksnicholas next Tuesday, August 28th, using the hashtag #TargetChat for a chance to have him answer them live at 10:00am PST / 1:00pm EST!

The film adaptation of Safe Haven has officially wrapped shooting, and here's a great pic of Nicholas on location at Ivan's Fish Shack. Ivan's is the local restaurant where Katie works in the book and film. Make sure you're following the movie on Facebook and Twitter to get all of the inside scoop on the movie before it hits theaters on February 8, 2013